Janelle Ruley

Janelle A. Ruley graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Dartmouth College. Janelle was a Senior Fellow at Dartmouth, completing a year-long, College-funded, independent study project on Institutional Change and Coeducation at Dartmouth. Janelle received her Juris Doctor from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. At McGeorge, she was an editor and staff writer on the McGeorge Law Review, and represented low income clients on family law and general civil litigation for two years in McGeorge’s Community Legal Services Clinic. Janelle also received a Master of Laws in Government and Public Policy degree from McGeorge. Janelle was an Education Law Fellow while working toward the LL.M degree; as a Fellow she provided hands-on programmatic support for the Pacific Pathways Pipeline Project, a Sacramento-based partnership that includes an elementary school, (charter) middle school, (charter) high school, the law school, and the local office of a major California law firm.